diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 1b03c9268..ef14ae694 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -4,8 +4,6 @@
 #
 #    pip-compile
 #
-attrs==22.1.0
-    # via jsonschema
 certifi==2022.9.24
     # via requests
 charset-normalizer==2.1.1
@@ -28,8 +26,6 @@ idna==3.4
     # via requests
 joblib==1.2.0
     # via scikit-learn
-jsonschema==4.16.0
-    # via matminer (setup.py)
 kiwisolver==1.4.4
     # via matplotlib
 latexcodec==2.0.1
@@ -89,8 +85,6 @@ pyparsing==3.0.9
     # via
     #   matplotlib
     #   packaging
-pyrsistent==0.18.1
-    # via jsonschema
 python-dateutil==2.8.2
     # via
     #   matplotlib
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 90e5bf514..d5a7b6cf8 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 module_dir = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
 
 extras_require = {
-    "mpds": ["ujson", "jmespath", "httplib2", "ase"],
+    "mpds": ["ujson", "jmespath", "httplib2", "ase", "jsonschema"],
     "dscribe": ["dscribe"],
     "mdfforge": ["mdf-forge"],
     "aflow": ["aflow"],
@@ -44,7 +44,6 @@
             "sympy",
             "monty",
             "pymatgen",
-            "jsonschema"
         ],
         extras_require=extras_require,
         classifiers=[